Washington, Sept. 16 -- Congressman Gabe Evans issued the following press release:
Today, Congressman Gabe Evans' bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act (https://gabeevans.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/gabeevans.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/ratepayer-protection-act-one-pager.pdf) passed the U.S. House of Representatives by an overwhelming vote of 417-3, advancing legislation designed to protect American families and small businesses from bearing the infrastructure costs created by large data centers.
The bill requires that large energy load data centers be responsible for the costs of all new energy infrastructure necessary to serve them. This protects existing ratepayers from having costs shifted to them. The bill also requires that st...